Nine hundred and ninety-ninth chapter irascible Chao Cuo
Pyongyang, this is an ancient city with a long history.([ [
Pyongyang was originally the capital of Wei's Korea, and was even the old capital of Qi's Korea.
At the beginning, the Wei Man rebelled against the Han and took more than a thousand defeated generals with them. They crossed the Zhu River and fled to the country of Chaozi Korea.
The last king of Korea, Jiezi, thought he had the help of a general.
As it turns out, it turns out that this is a story about a farmer and a snake.
One day after Weiman defected to North Korea, he gathered his subordinates and united some North Korean nobles to stage a mutiny and destroy North Korea.
The Weiman Korean regime was established from then on.
When it was in its heyday, the Wei Dynasty was all over Korea, and it was like the little tyrant of the East.
He punched Zhenfan and kicked Ma Han.
He also blatantly flirted with the Xiongnu, thinking that he was hugging a thick thigh.
result……
Facts have finally proven that defending Korea is too far from heaven and the Han Dynasty is too close.
In the second year of Yuande, after an armed parade that was almost theatrical in nature, Wei's Korea perished in civil strife.
The Han army entered Wangxian City.
The following year, the emperor issued an edict to rename Wangxian City Pyongyang.
In the third year of Yuande, Liu Ming, the concubine of King Liang, was ordered to move the town here.
Although it is only the title of King of Joseon, its status and etiquette specifications are those of princes and kings.
Moreover, Liang Wang Liu Wu was afraid that his beloved son would suffer hardship in this barbaric land.
Special request to the emperor to allow Liang's domestic history Han Anguo, general Zhang Yu, Liang's 50,000 troops, and their families to immigrate to North Korea.
The King of Liang also spent 200,000,000 yuan from his own treasury, and recruited more than 20,000 craftsmen, officials, and scholar-bureaucrats from the Liang State. He also recruited 50,000 landless people from Guandong.
They all immigrated here.
Four years have passed.
Today, the Kingdom of Korea has regained its vitality.
Between the three rivers, there are crisscross roads and gurgling channels.
A waterwheel was installed on both sides of the river, above the wilderness, with roads crisscrossing the streets and smoke curling up from cooking stoves.
Chao Cuo, the imperial censor of the Han Dynasty and the imperial envoy of the emperor, was currently sitting in a side hall of the Pyongyang Palace, flipping through volumes of files.
These are all the incriminating evidences he collected against Longlihou Chen Jiao.
Including, without the emperor's edict, conquering the barbarians and Di, entangled with party members, doing evil, deceiving the people, not doing anything about production, deceiving the public with monstrous words, and disrupting the state affairs!
If any of the princes were guilty of these crimes in the past, they would be either dead or injured.
but……
Chao Cuo felt very unsure of himself now.
This is not just because the emperor's attitude is unpredictable.
The things Chen Jiao did in North Korea and at sea were obviously approved and permitted by the emperor.
Chao Cuo even discovered that there were Xiu Yiwei and even his censor, the censor of the Yamen, mixed with Chen Jiao's whaling team.
What is the attitude of the emperor of Chang'an on this matter?
It's hard to comment.
In addition to the emperor, Chao Cuo is now facing tremendous pressure from the entire North Korea.
From King Liu Ming of Joseon to the common people in the market and registered households, many people had deep doubts and doubts about him, the imperial censor, and his views and remarks.
Sighing, Chao Cuo stood up and looked at the notes hanging on the wall on one side of the palace.
These notes are all facts he has investigated in the past half a month, what he has witnessed with his own eyes, and related matters recorded in the internal history office and kingdom archives of the Joseon Dynasty.
There were so many of these notes that, in Chao Cuo's eyes, they clearly presented the development of the Korean Kingdom after its return to the Han Dynasty.
It all started with the note on the far left.
This note comes from the embassy of the Kingdom of Korea.
It is very likely that at the beginning, when the historian wrote the words on this note, Liu Ming, the king of Korea, was still in the distant Suiyang, the capital of Liang.
"In August of the second year of Yuande, the imperial edict was made to appoint Wu Ziming, the king of Liang, as the king of Korea. In the first year of the year, when the king of Korea was king, he issued an edict to the king of Xiancheng and said: Pyongyang. Set up internal history and divide counties into counties, just like the story of China." Chao Cuo read.
Here's the beginning of it all: "In the second year of your reign, after your death in Korea, King Zhun of Han took the daughter of King Zhun of Han as your wife. The King of Liang paid two hundred million yuan and appointed Lieutenant Zhang Yu as the internal secretary of Han Anguo to assist you."
From this note, the Kingdom of Korea became the land of China.
Just like during the Zong Zhou period, Emperor Ji Zhou sealed off his relatives and nephews and suppressed Yi Di.
But, when the time came to the third year of Yuande.
The changes in the Korean Kingdom were separated from the historical evolution process of China that Chao Cuo could recognize and be familiar with.
"In the seventh month of the month when the fire was flowing, you wrote the "Ode to the Three Waters" and ordered the generals to Anguo and General Yu to lead their own troops. Xiaoyu and the whole country changed customs and organized households. Anyone who dares not to follow will be completed in the first spring of the city!"
Even the common people in Chang'an City have heard of this matter.
At the beginning, when King Liu Ming of Korea just came into the country, he adopted the policy of Lieutenant Han Anguo and ordered that all tribes and old nobles in the country, their tribes, and slaves must accept the characters, laws, and systems.
This caused quite a commotion at the time and even led to a rebellion.
Liu Ming then wrote "Ode to Three Rivers", lamenting the magnificent mountains and rivers of Korea and vowing to make them all for China.
Then, Liu Ming, in the name of the King of Korea, ordered the suppression of all disobedience and resistance.
With bayonets and horseshoes, Liu Ming used violence to complete the sinicization of Korea.
All the tribes and nobles of old Korea disappeared.
Replaced by Chinese-style counties.
A large number of slaves were emancipated and became freedmen, and then these slaves became tenants of the newly arrived Han Dynasty immigrants.
And a large number of old nobles and old tribes who stubbornly resisted were wiped out in this process.
At that time, the news spread and the world praised him.
Although everyone knew that Liu Ming, who was only fourteen years old at the time, would not have been able to make such a wise and powerful decision.
The person who ordered and deployed the suppression after the Joseon King was either Liu Ming or his father Liu Wu.
However, this does not prevent everyone from praising Liu Ming and describing him as a wise king of the Han family and a pillar of the country.
However, from that time on, the Kingdom of Korea embarked on a completely different path from the vassal states in the heart of China.
"In three years, King Han and King Zhenfan will all meet in Pyongyang. With great virtue, you will pity Han, Zhenfan and other common people, and allow them to work in Korea!" Chao Cuo stared at this post on the front line with his eyes.
, and the note was specially enlarged.
This was the beginning of the completely different changes between today's North Korea and mainland China.
It is said that Liu Ming was very compassionate and generously allowed Korean and Zhenfan people to come to North Korea to work.
In fact, it was the beginning of the notorious "dispatch workers" among some factions of Confucianism.
For a time, South Korea, Zhenfan, and even small countries like Woju and Lintun packed up their own people, slaves and even troops and sent them to North Korea and Xinhua.
They built bridges and paved roads for China, dug mountains and mines, reclaimed wasteland, and erected waterwheels.
The prosperity of today's North Korea and the vast countryside were paved with nearly 10,000 bones from surrounding foreign races.
It is just to build a bridge across the Xu River and to Liaodong.
A total of three thousand people died.
However, today's bridge connects the southeast and closely connects China's Liaodong and the Kingdom of Korea.
Many Confucian scholars, especially those who were moved here, beat their chests and cried loudly like their dead parents, saying, 'Chinese etiquette and laws collapsed here, and benevolence and righteousness will no longer exist...'.
Chao Cuo didn't feel anything about it.
Foreigners or whatever, just die!
For Legalists, the process is not important, only the result is important!
As long as they can succeed, let alone killing tens of thousands of aliens, they will not hesitate to kill their own people with their heads and blood flowing like rivers.
However, North Korea's successful experience of using "dispatch workers" to excavate projects and perform heavy work even inspired Chao Cuo.
Chao Cuo even felt that this system could be widely extended to the world.
The annual employment fee for a foreign slave worker is only 500 yuan.
There are even some cheap ones that only cost three or four hundred dollars.
Even if he dies, he only needs to compensate his mother country from 5,000 to 7,000 yuan.
This is much cheaper than Han's in-house labor.
The Han Dynasty now recruits a common man to serve as a corvee. If the common man refuses to go, he will have to spend more than a hundred yuan to hire someone to help him serve.
And if a civilian husband was injured or died during his service, it would be a heavy loss for the Han Dynasty!
And if all these corvees and handymen are replaced by foreign "dispatch workers".
Not only can it reduce the burden on the people, but it can also increase government revenue. More importantly, it can also alleviate social conflicts and help the people recuperate and recuperate.
However, everything has advantages and disadvantages.
The addition of a large number of dispatched workers has reduced the burden on North Korean people.
It also made a large number of laborers wealthy.
Then, when the Huaihua gold rush came.
When Chen Jiao started hunting whales.
These affluent labor forces have emerged in these two industries.
Just like what is described and recorded on these notes now posted on the wall.
Now, in the forests of North Korea, thousands of young people are working hard to cut trees every day.
They cut down patches of virgin forest, then tied them into rafts and carried them down the river to Zhushui, where they delivered them to Chen Jiao's fleet.
Chen Jiao's fleet then tows these giant trees and sails to the ocean or shipyard.
The lumber shipped to the shipyard was placed on the coast and in workshops.
They will be sunned and dried for three years before finally becoming raw materials for shipbuilding.
The remaining wood will be sent to Chengen Island to become fuel for refining whale oil.
In addition to wood, Chen Jiao's whaling business and Huaihua's gold rush also required a large number of various tools and utensils.
Wooden barrels used to hold whale oil, iron tools for cutting whale carcasses, iron tongs, ropes for dragging whale carcasses, stone millstones for grinding whale bones...
Dustpan, sieve, and shovel are necessary for gold panning.
So these demands eventually turned into countless notes that are now posted on this wall.
Each piece of paper represents a workshop.
These workshops employ hundreds of workers, while the smaller ones are just family workshops.
They produced various handicrafts and industrial products needed by Chen Jiao and the gold rush crowd, and then exchanged them for gold, oil, and whale products.
A conservative estimate is that now, at least 30,000 to 50,000 people in North Korea have left agriculture and entered workshops.
They provide all the goods they can for the Jinsha River and Chenjiao in Huaihua and the whaling business of Louchuan Yamen.
You know, the entire country of North Korea only has a population of one million.
Now, at least one-twentieth of the population is involved in industry and commerce.
For Legalists, this is simply intolerable!
but……
Chao Cuo rubbed his head.
In North Korea, he encountered an unprecedented situation.
Here, in this foreign land far away from the political center of China.
The land is new, the people are new immigrants, and even the channels and roads are brand new.
Naturally, people here also use new values and judgment methods.
The scholar-bureaucrats, aristocrats and officials here, and even the Korean king Liu Ming, have become accustomed to this kind of life.
Fish and seafood have even become common food on the tables of people here!
That bastard Chen Jiao also knows how to win people's hearts.
Every month, he would drag a whale he killed off the coast to a North Korean port and sell it to North Korean citizens at a low price.
A whale often weighs tens of thousands of stones.
The cut meat is enough to feed 100,000 people!
But the Zajia appeared here, took advantage of it, and prospered, which caught Chao Cuo off guard.
Without the involvement of the Za family, Chao Cuo could have created public opinion first, and then coerced the public opinion to throw Chen Jiao and his whaling industry into hell.
Let the Kingdom of Korea become that simple country where "roosters and dogs hear each other, and the people do not interact with each other until old age and death."
Thinking of the Zajia family and the quilts of the Pyongyang Academy, Chao Cuo snorted coldly: "Lu Buwei's disciples and grandsons actually dare to come out and cause trouble!"
Suppose that Confucianism and Mohism are mortal enemies and enemies.
So, there is no doubt that the Legalists and the Zajia are the two political enemies who are facing each other head-to-head.
The Legalists advocate the teaching of using the power of the earth to get rid of the five beetles, eliminate the seven emotions and six desires, and ultimately enrich the country and strengthen the army.
But Zajia is a school that absorbed Confucianism, Legalism and Huang-Lao thought.
They don't care much about enriching the country and strengthening the army.
On the contrary, he is very interested in the lives and dignity of ordinary people.
Lu Buwei, that rebellious guy, even once shouted such ridiculous nonsense as "the world is not for one person, but for everyone".
And the current Zajia family is no less generous!
Chao Cuo pinched the Zajia's new book "Enriching the People" in his hand and gritted his teeth.
Today's Zajia family, in this North Korea and this land of Dongyi, has gone further than Lu Buwei did back then!
The most Lu Buwei can do is to shout about nobles and people.
But that quilt is openly challenging the truth of the world that is based on agriculture!
"Those who make the people rich are based on farming and mulberry farming, and take wandering as the last. Those who are rich in craftsmen are based on practicality, and take skillful decoration as the last. Those who are merchants are based on currency, and take vending as the last. The three keep their roots. At the end of the day, you will be rich, but you will stay away from your roots and stay at the end, and you will be poor!" Chao Cuo read these words and almost had the urge to imitate Confucius.
"It's just nonsense and treasonous!"
"The beginning is the beginning, and the end is the end!"
"I finally understand why Kong Zhongni wanted to kill Shaozhengmao back then!"
“If the fallacies and heresies of this generation remain in the world, won’t they destroy the hearts of the world?”
It's a pity that he is not qualified to kill Shaozhengmao like Confucius.
If nothing else, the North Korean king Liu Ming would definitely not agree.
When I was irritated, suddenly, someone came in from outside the palace and worshiped: "Ming Gong, Song Zihou wants to see you!" (To be continued.) 8
